Queensland Consolidated Acts

DIVIDING FENCES ACT 1953

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   4.      Act not to apply to unalienated Crown land
   5.      Act not to affect agreements
   6.      Definitions

   PART 2--CONSTRUCTION OF DIVIDING FENCES

   7.      Liability of owners of adjoining lands to fence
   8.      Service of notice to fence
   9.      Proceedings consequent on notice to fence
   10.     Proceedings on failure to carry out agreement or order
   11.     Cases where owner or whereabouts of owner are not known
   12.     Rights of persons fencing boundaries of certain Crown land
   13.     Proceedings for defining boundary line by cadastral surveyor

   PART 3--REPAIR OF EXISTING DIVIDING FENCES

   14.     Failure to carry out an order to repair
   15.     Liability of adjoining owners to repair
   16.     Procedure to compel contribution
   17.     Liability of person using fence on further side of road

   PART 4--GENERAL

   18.     Jurisdiction of and proceedings in Magistrates Courts or Small Claims Tribunals
   19.     Recovery of money payable
   20.     Apportionment of contribution between owner and lessee
   21.     Position of person with option to purchase
   22.     Power to enter adjoining land
   23.     Notices
   24.     Regulation making power
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